[PDF file]: […] Lady Falkender, and erratic judgement in general. However: on pp. 74-75 we learn that, yes, there were hidden microphones in 10 Downing Street. Apparently Harold Macmillan asked MI5 to install them ‘during the Profumo scandal’. They remained in situ until 1977 when they were quietly removed. One reading of this would be as follows: […]
[PDF file]: […] Ireland.3 1 The influence of Morton in this process is unmistakeable, as he had recently been operational in Northern Ireland himself – and his work there for MI5 had been integral to counter-insurgency. The visit duly took place in June of 1983, less than a year after the killings in Northern Ireland that lead […]
[PDF file]: […] at Manchester’s International Anthony Burgess Foundation, confirmed by e-mail: ‘We’ve not yet come across any records within our collection which support the claim that Burgess worked for MI5.’ Note that careful ‘not yet’. And note also the reference is only to MI5 and not MI6. But by the same token, there is absolutely nothing […]
[PDF file]: […] in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of his close association with Burgess, Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three […]
[…] in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of his close association with Burgess, Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three […]
[…] in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of his close association with Burgess, Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three […]
[…] things have come together. Firstly, it no longer seems as important. Other people are doing this, which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘ MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, […]
[PDF file]: […] part of an anti-Nazi resistance network which included coreligionists and they handed over to the British a list which identified many colleagues. After the war, officers from MI5 travelled to Germany to try to find these people, but failed to locate one of them. Ben Macintyre provides an account of this episode based on […]
[…] in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of his close association with Burgess, Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three […]
[PDF file]: […] Section D or Section VII. Any such large-scale effort within the UK border by one of the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist agents who were already in place.5 Roughly 3,000 men were […]
